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This is a great sentence! And a good post overall Adrian Chen! #sad
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When we buried my grandmother (at the age of 91), her only living friend was too far gone to make it to the graveside. The burial party totaled five: her surviving son, her daughter, her daughter's GF, my mother (a daughter-in-law), and me. That was a terribly lonely graveside. #sad
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If it matters, I'm told that my cousins who lived in the area were somewhat of a comfort to her, but that Grandmother H. had pretty much checked out for her last few years. My dad's family wasn't terribly close to begin with, and I was 2400 miles away, so there wasn't a lot that I could do. #sad
10/27/09
Personally interviewing a bereaved source only to mock his quotes?
Bunk x 10. #sad
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Furthermore, the overall tone of the post is snarky. Snark is fine and good in the correct circumstances--we're on Gawker--but we're talking about innocent, hitherto anonymous people who didn't actively seek fame or notoriety. They have just had a death in the family. It seems obscene to drag their names in the mud if all you're going to do is make fun of them. #sad
10/27/09
I'm not sure who expects 400 people to show up at a funeral service, unless a cop, firefighter or major community figure is being sent off. In my experience, I would say that 65 is a pretty good turnout. #sad
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Also, Adrian gets extra points for using "Michiganders" and not the bastardized formation "Michiganians." #sad
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Ooh! I thought the same thing when I read 'Michiganders', though I believe that if Adrian wanted to score the most points, he would have used 'trolls', as this is a story about people from downstate. Not that I think of that every time I meet someone from downstate (I totally do).
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I just have cousins over there... my family's from Grosse Pointe, and I grew up towards the Thumb. #sad
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Also, there's no such place as "downstate" in Michigan. There's civilization (everything south of a line running from Muskegon through Midland), The Thumb, "Up North" (the top half of the Mitten) and "Da U.P." #sad
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I missed the story about Hope, but that sounds about par for Holland, which I consider to be this continent's answer to Johannesburg.
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And you're right -- GR is a bit more liberal than some of the other areas in West MI -- but the entire area is still quite conservative.
It was Hope College in Holland, actually, that is dealing with the controversy re: Lance Black, but Calvin College is mentioned in the article about it, too:
[www.hollandsentinel.com]
Basically, it mentions that the Calvin faculty voted earlier this month to recommend that the Board of Trustees withdraw a memo that was issued to professors and instructed them not to advocate for any homosexual issues -- at least they got it right the second time? #sad
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You just don't hear that kind of smack being talked during a homily at a Catholic church, period. All I can assume is that there are still plenty of Protestants in GR who believe that the Peace of Westphalia was a compromise with the devil. #sad
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Anyway, on topic - I'm really distressed by how the government is handling the flu health issue. Even while we're being scared out of our minds about it, my county health dept. in suburban Detroit ran out of the seasonal flu vaccine in early October.
The excuse offered? The Fed govt. didn't send enough because it's focusing on the H1N1 vaccine. Which we also don't have anywhere near enough of. I'm not optimistic I'm ever going to be able to get the latter shot. (Even though I spend a lot of time around young adults, one of the hardest hit populations.)
Meanwhile, tho' the government agencies don't have any seasonal vaccines, I can go to local retail pharmacies to get a shot there - for a higher cost. What's wrong with this pic? #sad
10/28/09
Back to topic: the systemic failure to manufacture enough vaccine is just another drawback of our only-for-profit health care system. We don't have to rely on growing the stuff in chicken eggs the way we did ten or twenty years ago, but to do anything that would come off the production line more quickly isn't as profitable.
So, we're rationing flu vaccine again. I'm happy to forgo my shots so that people like you who could really use them can get them. Unfortunately, I can't send them via FedEx from SF to Detroit. #sad
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The consolation prize from the Toledo War was the western half of the U.P.; the eastern half had always been associated with Michigan Territory. #sad
10/27/09
This hysteria happens everytime a new disease or whatever comes along. There are a lot of ignorant people out there but even the intelligent ones tend to think twice!! #sad
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